The Internet has been buzzing with an article from The New Yorker that got picked up and reported by Fox News on an imminent, massive earthquake that threatens to take down the Pacific Northwest.
It seems that this mega-quake is about 75 years overdue – it has been striking the area for the last 10,000 years around every 240 years.
So it’s not a question of ‘if’, but ‘when’.
When it does strike it will take down everything west of Interstate 5, including Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, Eugene, Salem, Olympia – home to around seven million people.
The coming quake will register somewhere between 8.7- 9.2 and will create a gigantic, 100ft high tsunami that will also cause considerable destruction.
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The Pacific plate is going UNDER the North American plate.
Nope I remember the gas shortage that carter created….
Best article I’ve read on this subject is here: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/07/20/the-really-big-one
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PROXIMATE rather than imminent. Could be tomorrow or 100 years from now.
I think we will get hit by the asterioid or earthquake in September that might set off all this gloom and doom one thing after another! Obama has taken Gods blessings from this nation! It happened to the romans and greeks also!
North coast Native Indian legends describe the last Magnitude 9 quake in January, 1700 as a struggle between Thunderbird (the quake) and Whale (the tsunami). Thunderbird attacks Whale with great sound and fury. Whale slaps his tail to get away (creating the tsunami that comes ashore soon after). The coast was underwater for up to 3 or 4 days (according to the stories) and many coastal communities were completely destroyed, with great loss of life. The same thing will happen next time and for millions of years into the future, about every 500 years on average. That’s not to say it couldn’t happen in our lifetime.
Let it take the west coast first !
California can disappear any day of the week
I am down here waiting for it